- Online Spaces for Individual & Societal Healing -
ACROSS THE DIVIDE
Across The Divide Conversations
Facilitated by John Kinyon
Upcoming Across the Divide Conversations:
Wednesday, June 25th 5p-7p PT
Wednesday, July 2nd 10a-12p PT
These online spaces for individual and societal healing are open to the public and held on different days and times of the month. You can also contact us to request private facilitation for your group or organization.
The Across the Divide Process supports individuals to experience inner reconciliation, healing, and peace through group conversation on polarizing social-political-ecological issues and topics. The process was created and has developed since 2019. It is designed to help people experience within themselves the bridging of conflicting interpersonal differences and healing of group and culture divides through an empathic conversation structure.
By attending these group conversations you can experience a deep healing connection within yourself, and you can take the learning, skills, and structure back to relationships and conversations in your own life.
Even in times of great division, we can empathically listen and authentically express in a way that creates understanding and connection. This is an opportunity for healing collective and generational divides.
These conversations give the opportunity to talk about the most vital, urgent, and important societal conflicts and challenges we are facing, in a spirit of empathy, honesty, compassion, and collaboration. The intention is to experience holding our differences from an awareness of our underlying commonalities and larger unity and wholeness as human beings and one life of the planet.
The Across the Divide process uses an empathic conversation structure of being guided to take turns speaking and listening with a focus on understanding where we disagree and connecting to what we share in common — our emotions and our universal needs, values, and desires. Cooperation, collaboration, and new creative solutions emerge from this space.
It is a place to build empathic community and connections with others, as well as practice skills for navigating and transforming conflict into new life-serving possibilities.
People who attend report having powerful, moving, deeply connecting, and even transformational experiences.
Being able to effectively communicate about and heal our individual and collective divides is key to maintaining, strengthening, and evolving democracy.
What makes social-political issues and topics so difficult is having very different realities about what's going on. When we learn how to have these conversations in a connecting and healing way, we create more of the world we know is possible. A world with less violence and more connection — where we work together to solve the challenges we face.
All are invited to participate, and you are also welcome to just listen and witness without speaking if you choose. Please invite anyone in your community who you think might be interested.
All are welcome to attend for free, and receiving financial support is needed to continue offering this work to the world. If you or someone you know is connected with possible sources of funding, please email us at john@johnkinyon.com.
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